Quote#Politics & Power
The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of…
Quote byAlbert Gallatin · 1761–1849
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Alexander Addison (October 7, 1789); MS. in New York Historical Society—A.G. Papers, 2. Reported in Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Albuquerque: New Mexico UP, 1984), p. 225.
English (original)
The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals. ... [I]t establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.
— Albert Gallatin
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